Alibaba Cloud open-sources Qwen-7B
Released Qwen-7B and Qwen-7B-Chat — the first open weights of the Tongyi Qianwen family, distributed on ModelScope and Hugging Face under the Tongyi Qianwen license (commercial use by application)
Why it matters
Alibaba's first open-weight language model; the original release was trained on 2.2T tokens, raised to 2.4T in an update on September 25, 2023
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